Fighting to Breathe

Race, Toxicity, and the Rise of Youth Activism in Baltimore
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-520-37932-9
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 54, 266 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 229 mm x 152 mm, Gewicht: 414 g

Reihe: California Series in Public Anthropology

Industrial toxic emissions on the South Baltimore Peninsula are among the highest in the nation. Because of the concentration of factories and other chemical industries in their neighborhoods, residents face elevated rates of lung cancer and other respiratory illnesses in addition to heart attacks, strokes, and cardiovascular disease, all of which can lead to premature death. Fighting to Breathe follows a dynamic and creative group of high school students who decided to fight back against the race- and class-based health disparities and inequality in their city. For more than a decade, student organizers stood up to unequal land use practices and the proposed construction of an incinerator and instead initiated new waste management strategies. As a Baltimore resident and activist-scholar, Nicole Fabricant documents how these young organizers came to envision, design, and create a more just and sustainable Baltimore.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fabricant, Nicole

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Umweltsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations
List of Characters
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Failed Development on Baltimore’s Toxic Periphery: A History
2. Free Your Voice: An Origin Story
3. Fighting the Nation’s Largest Trash-to-Energy Incinerator
4. “Whose Land? Our Land!”: Land Trusts as Fair Development
5. Compost! Learn So We Don’t Have to Burn: Zero Waste Is Our Future
Conclusion

Postscript: A Letter of Confession to the Activist Scholar
Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nicole Fabricant is Professor of Anthropology at Towson University in Maryland. She is the author of Mobilizing Bolivia's Displaced: Indigenous Politics and the Struggle over Land and is co–executive editor of NACLA Report on the Americas.